A 14-year-old teenager has been arrested for the shooting in the most luxurious shopping center in Bangkok, which has left at least three people dead and three others injured to varying degrees.

The incident, which took place around 4:20 p.m. (local time) in the Siam Paragon gallery, caused hundreds of people to leave the shopping center, where more than a dozen shots were heard.

Videos posted on social media showed a young man in a black shirt and camouflage pants carrying a firearm.

The Siam Paragon shopping mall is the most luxurious in the Thai capital. In addition to elitist clothing stores, there are car dealerships such as Lamborghini, the Siam Opera and the Siam Ocean World, currently the largest aquarium in Asia with more than 30,000 animals, where it is possible to swim with sharks.

A patrol from the special operations group of the Thai Police has been sent to the scene of the incident.. According to local press reports, the minor left the weapon on the ground and surrendered without any opposition upon the arrival of the agents.

Among the three injured is a foreign citizen.

According to The Bangkok Post, the entrances and exits of the shopping center have been closed and public transport does not stop at Siam BTS.

Armed violence is not anecdotal in Thailand. A former police officer killed 22 children at a daycare center in 2022 during a gun and knife attack, while in 2020 a soldier shot dead at least 29 people and wounded 57 in an attack that spread across four towns in the country. north the country.

The former CEO of the American clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch, Mike Jeffries, and his partner, the British Matthew Smith, have been accused in a BBC documentary of abuse and exploitation of several men who were recruited to attend sexual events. with them.

The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool, which airs this Monday, includes the testimony of men who explain how between 2009 and 2015 they were recruited by an intermediary through manipulation and pretense to be able to climb in their careers.

On its website, the British public broadcaster assures that its two-year investigation, whose data it has consulted with former United States prosecutors, uncovers that the couple sponsored a highly organized network dedicated to attracting young people to these events in various parts of the world.

“They attended with their eyes wide open”

Jeffries and Smith have not commented to the station, while the intermediary, identified as James Jacobson, has denied any illegality and states that the men attended those events “with their eyes wide open.”

For its part, Abercrombie & Fitch, which Jeffries left in 2014, has said it is “horrified and disgusted” with the former executive's alleged behavior.

The BBC claims to have spoken to a total of twelve men who have described participating in or organizing these sexual evenings for the enjoyment of Jeffries, 79, and Smith, 60, in that six-year period.

The eight men who attended as participants reveal that they were recruited by Jacobson, recognizable by the snakeskin patch covering his nose area.

Some of these witnesses, who were in their twenties at the time, say that they were deceived, others claim that they knew that there would be sexual events but did not know what their role would be.. They all received money and in some cases Jacobson also forced them to submit to sexual acts with him.

Most maintain that they were abused and that the experience has left them scarred. The testimonies reveal that the intermediary paid other scouts to recruit multitudes of young people and that all those attending the parties were forced to sign confidentiality contracts, in addition to other details about how the alleged operation worked.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has dismantled in the Mikolayiv province in the south of the country “one of the largest networks of Russian agents” discovered on Ukrainian territory since the beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on February 24 of the year past.

In the operation, the Ukrainian secret service has detained thirteen residents in the Mikolayiv region, who were allegedly working as “informants” for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the SBU reported in a statement on Tuesday.

According to the investigation, the agents transmitted information to the Russian secret service about the location of the bases and movements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south of the country. In addition, the detainees would have helped Russia with details about the effects of its attacks so that the Kremlin forces could sharpen their aim in new rounds of bombings “on residential and social infrastructures” of the city.

One of his tasks, says the SBU statement, was to provide information to Russia for an attack carried out in autumn 2022 with an S-300 missile against a multi-story building in the city of Mikolayiv, capital of the region of the same name.. Seven people died in this, including a minor.

According to the SBU, the alleged agents passed the information to a Russian blogger, Sergei Lebedev, who acted as a “liaison” with the FSB. Lebédiev contributes to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti from the Russian-occupied territories in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk.

The British Minister of Economy, Jeremy Hunt, announced this Monday during the annual congress of the Conservative Party that he will raise the minimum wage next year and paralyze the expansion of the body of State civil servants.

The minimum wage will increase from the current 10.42 pounds per hour (12.03 euros) to 11 pounds per hour (12.70 euros), Hunt told training members gathered at a conference center in Manchester (north). from England). “This is a pay rise for two million workers,” said the minister, who said that “if you work hard, a conservative government will always support you.”

In the same speech, Hunt announced that he will put a stop to the expansion of the workforce of public officials and will implement a plan to reduce it to levels prior to the coronavirus pandemic. With this plan, his Government hopes to save 1,000 million pounds (1,150 million euros) next year, detailed the head of the Economy.

“We have the best officials in the world, who have saved many lives during the pandemic working day and night. But, even when the pandemic is over, we still have 66,000 more civil servants than before,” the minister said. “I will not lift the freeze until we have an adequate plan, not only for the civil service body but to increase the productivity of the entire sector public”

The former US president, Donald Trump, arrived this Monday at the New York court where the civil trial against him for fraud that continued for years in the Trump Organization has begun, promoted by the New York State Prosecutor's Office, amid a strong safety device.

Trump warned that he would attend the oral arguments in person with the aim of clearing his name and reputation, but he was not seen entering the steps in front of which the press was stationed, in a fenced square also filled with police and protesters. against him, since he did it through a side entrance.

The president entered the state Supreme Court around 9:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. GMT), far from the cameras, and his sons Eric and Donald Jr. also entered with him.. and other partners accused of inflating the value of the company's assets to obtain financial advantages.

“There is no crime,” the former president told the press as soon as he arrived, ensuring that it was a trial against him to harm him in the electoral race because “he is doing well in the polls.” “It's a witch hunt, it's a shame,” Trump added before calling the judge a “scoundrel.”

“I just came to court to fight a corrupt, racist attorney general and an out-of-control Trump-hating judge who refuses to accept an appeals court decision that knocks out 80% of his case.” “, he indicated on the social network Truth Social.

On September 28, a New York appeals court decided to maintain the start date of the civil trial against Trump for fraud in the Trump Organization for Monday, October 2.

Trump's defense tried to delay the date of the procedure with a complaint of abuse of authority against Judge Arthur Engoron, after which an appeals court ordered on September 14 to paralyze the case before ruling.

In that complaint, Trump accused the judge of having acted negligently in rejecting a request from his defense, in which he asked him to dismiss most of the case because it was supposedly outside the statute of limitations.

However, in a brief decision issued last Thursday, the court decided to reject that appeal and lift the pause imposed on the process, allowing the planned schedule to be resumed. The Prosecutor's Office had already warned that delaying the civil trial could have consequences on other pending litigation against the former president, including the four criminal cases against him.

Engoron confirmed this Monday that the trial will last until December 22. A few days before, he had already summarily resolved, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, the main charge, by declaring Trump, two of his sons, his company and two partners responsible for fraud (which could shorten the entire process).

Trump, his children Donald Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization and two former executives were found liable for ongoing fraud for inflating the value of the company's assets for years to gain financial advantage. The judge also ordered the defendants' permits to do business in New York state be canceled.

The remaining six charges set to be tried starting Monday relate to “persistent illegalities” at the company, including falsifying corporate documents, issuing false financial statements and committing insurance fraud. The New York Prosecutor's Office is demanding compensation of $250 million, which will also be determined in the process.

Both sides have submitted their lists of potential witnesses, which include the defendants. This civil lawsuit against the former president is not related to the four criminal proceedings faced by the first former president in the history of the United States who has been indicted.

In Georgia he faces a case for alleged interference in the 2020 elections; in New York, the process for irregular payments he made during the 2016 campaign to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels for an “affair” they had in the past.

In Florida he faces justice for having taken classified papers to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021 and, finally, he must respond in Washington to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, in which his Supporters attempted to disrupt the legislative process to certify Biden's 2020 victory.

A grizzly bear has been euthanized after carrying out a brutal attack that killed two people and their dog in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, according to park officials.

The park administration said in a statement that authorities had been alerted by a GPS device that signaled a bear attack in the Red Deer River Valley.. Ultimately, the victims were identified as a Canadian couple and their dog, according to Kim Titchener, founder of Bear Safety and More and also a friend of the family.

“The reason we are seeing more attacks is because more and more people are going out into the backcountry and unfortunately they are not informed about bears,” Titchener said, adding that only 14% of grizzly bear attacks result in fatalities.

“They lived outdoors”

However, the victims “were people who lived outdoors and were very used to going out into the countryside,” said the founder in statements reported by El Universal.. “I'm sure it's an incredible shock for his family and I feel so sorry for them.”. “It's a horrible situation,” he lamented.

Parks Canada said the rescue team was forced to travel by land as weather conditions did not allow the use of helicopters.. Upon arriving in the area early on Saturday, they found the bodies of the couple and their pet.

More than 30 people were injured this Monday in a large fire that destroyed the State Security headquarters in the city of Ismailia, in eastern Egypt and on the banks of the Suez Canal, for reasons still unknown, official sources reported.

The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, said in a statement that at least 12 people had to be treated urgently and were transferred to the hospital, while another 26 cases were taken to a medical center, including two who suffered burns. and the rest by suffocation.

The fire was declared early this Monday at the State Security police headquarters in Ismailiya, without the reasons for the fire being known so far.

According to Egyptian television, the fire has already been controlled and Civil Defense teams are carrying out cooling work.

In the images shown by the Extra News network it is clearly seen how the fire has devastated the police headquarters.

Egypt suffers frequent fires, especially in the summer months, due to high temperatures that reach up to 44 degrees in the months of August and September, and which put high pressure on electricity consumption with air conditioners and air conditioners.

This year the Egyptian Government imposed an agenda of power cuts in all the country's provinces to regulate electricity consumption and end the lack of energy in strategic buildings.

Two scientists who managed to understand how to modify mRNA to turn it into an effective therapy that allows a key technology to rapidly develop vaccines in the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine this Monday. 2023.

The jury of the Swedish Academy awards them the award “for their discoveries on nucleoside base modifications that allowed the development of effective mRNA vaccines against covid-19”. The scientists, discoverers of a type of vaccine that saved lives and stopped the pandemic that paralyzed the world in 2020, will have to share 9 million Swedish crowns, equivalent to 830,000 euros.

Hungarian biologist Katalin Karikó, 68, is senior vice president at BionTech and associate professor of neurosurgery at Penn University School of Medicine. Immunologist Drew Weissman, 64, is a professor of vaccine research at the same Ivy League university in Philadelphia (USA), where they have collaborated for decades.

The award, in fact, rewards an association of scientists that began thanks to a chance meeting in 1997 while they were photocopying research papers.. Since then, Karikó and Weissman have jointly investigated all the possibilities of mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) as a therapeutic treatment.

Weissman and Karikó realized at the dawn of their teamwork that mRNA caused a serious inflammatory effect in the body that limited its biomedical use and prevented its use for vaccines.. Its fragility in conservation was also an obstacle. But over two decades, experiments allowed both scientists to safely orchestrate protein production.. And they came up with a solution that allowed mRNA to carry new work orders to cells without causing flare-ups of inflammation.

Initially, their findings were not celebrated by the scientific community as they expected.. To some they seemed “unconventional and almost science fiction,” Karikó would admit.. Until 2010, when the couple published that RNA in mice allowed the temporary production of red blood cells. Then the academy began to take notice of his important discoveries.

At the dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020, their work shone universally because Pfizer/BionTech and Moderna decided to use Karikó and Weissman's technology to develop their vaccines against the virus.. They have been used in 164 countries, and in the United States alone, mRNA vaccines account for more than 655 million total doses administered since they became available in December 2020.

From the University where associates continue to work, they highlight this Thursday that “during the greatest public health crisis of our lives, vaccine developers trusted the discoveries of Dr.. Weissman and Dr.. Karikó, who saved countless lives and paved the way out of the pandemic” and remember that now, “the same approach is being tested for other diseases and conditions.”

Princess of Asturias Award

Karikó and Weissman have received numerous awards before the Nobel Prize. Together with five other Covid-19 vaccine researchers, they obtained, for example, the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.

In his speech upon receiving the award in Oviedo, Karikó said: “The path of scientific discoveries never follows a straight line, it has twists and turns at every juncture and requires international collaborative efforts and the contribution of many scientists,” he highlighted.

Vaccines created with mRNA technology are considered among the most effective developed to date against the coronavirus, because they manage to maintain their effectiveness with the new variants. Their value is that they teach cells to make a protein that triggers an immune response within the body.

HIV could be the next achievement of this association of researchers that was not taken seriously at first. Three new experimental vaccines to protect against HIV infection, all based on an mRNA design similar to that used in the Covid-19 vaccine, are currently in early human clinical trials.. But it could also be effective against malaria, in addition to reducing cancer and treating many other diseases.

The unemployment rate in the eurozone decreased by one tenth in August compared to July and stood at 6.4% in the eighth month of 2023, which is the historical minimum in the single currency club, according to published data this Monday by the community statistics office, Eurostat.

At the end of August, Eurostat had reported that unemployment had stood at 6.4% in July in the euro area, but today it revised that figure and said unemployment had been set at 6.5% in the seventh month of this year.

In the European Union (EU) as a whole, unemployment also decreased by one tenth between July and August and stood at 5.9% in the eighth month of 2023.

Spain, the State with the highest unemployment rate in 2022

Eurostat again revised data for July published at the end of August, when it reported that the unemployment rate in the seventh month was 5.9%. In year-on-year terms, unemployment fell three tenths in the euro countries between August 2022 and 2023, while in the Twenty-seven it fell two tenths.

In the case of Spain, the unemployment rate was 11.5% last August, one tenth less than in July and 1.3 points less than in the eighth month of 2022. The country's year-on-year drop was the second highest in the entire European Union, only surpassed by Greece (1.4 points less between August 2022 and 2023).

However, Spain remained the member state of the community club with the highest unemployment rate, ahead of Greece (10.9%), Estonia and Sweden (7.6% in both cases), France and Italy (7.3%). % in both countries) and Finland (7.2%).

In contrast, the lowest unemployment percentages were detected in Czechia (2.5%), Malta (2.7%), Poland (2.8%), Germany (3%), Slovenia (3.5%) and Countries Low (3.6%).

As regards unemployment among those under twenty-five years of age, it fell by one tenth in the eurozone between July and August, to 13.8%, and remained unchanged, at 14%, in the community club as a whole.

In Spain, the indicator stood at 26.8% in the eighth month of 2023, a figure lower than the 27.2% in July and 31.8% in August of last year.

Even so, it remained the EU country with the highest percentage of unemployed young people, among the Member States for which the community statistics office published data.

The foreign ministers of the 27 will hold an informal meeting this Monday in kyiv.. and surprising. This is the first time that a meeting of this type has taken place in a country that is not part of the European Union and the announcement was not made until the day of the summit for security reasons.. It was the High Representative, Josep Borrell, who reported on the meeting through his social networks. “We reaffirm European support for the Ukrainian people in their defense of peace, freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity.. We will support Ukraine as long as it is necessary,” shared the Spanish minister, José Manuel Albares.

“Today I summon the Foreign Ministers of the EU in kyiv, to the first meeting of the 27 Member States ever held outside the EU,” Borrell wrote precisely.. This event takes place just two days before the summits of the European Political Community and the European Council that will take place this Thursday and Friday in Granada. The objective is to reaffirm support for Ukraine, which is working to open accession negotiations with the Union.

“Support will be sustained, it does not matter if the war drags on.”. The EU has shown that it is committed to helping Ukraine,” summarize the community sources consulted by 20minutes when asked again how long support for kyiv could last.. In Brussels they deny that there is fatigue, just as in the United States – at the expense of what happens in the elections -. In fact, the bloc of 27 has already become the largest donor of aid to Ukraine, ahead of that provided by Washington, although experts reiterate that it is “a distribution of work”, since the US provides military support and the EU the economic one.

And it is precisely that Ukraine and the European Union have demanded this Monday that the US Congress reconsider the decision to freeze new financing for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion within the framework of the threat of budget paralysis in the country.

The United States Senate approved a budget resolution at midnight from Saturday to Sunday to postpone the budget paralysis for 45 days and approve new accounts within this period, although the temporary measure excludes additional financing for Ukraine. Faced with this, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dimitro Kuleba, has indicated that US aid “has not been turned off” but it remains to be seen if the signal sent by Congress “is an incident or is systemic.”

On the other hand, there is the crisis in relations between Ukraine and Poland.. In Warsaw there are already doubts, although a total break is ruled out; but the photo is no longer the one from a few months ago. The most relevant issue in this sense is the Polish veto – and Hungary and Slovakia – on the entry of Ukrainian grain into their territories.. The three countries (and EU Member States) consider that their farmers are left in the background if access to grain from Ukraine is allowed, something that is not liked in Zelensky's circles.. The issue has been ongoing since before the summer, and at the moment they are still working on a solution.

Ukraine's reaction in recent days has been to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and has also requested that the entity open consultations with the authorities of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia with a view to resolving the disputes.. The process could, however, take years.. To this has also been added the controversy over the delivery of weapons. Poland looks inwards, and has let kyiv know this. He is going to arm his army first before sending new weapons to Zelensky's troops, although he has assured that he will send what is already committed.

And it is precisely that the cracks with the Eastern countries are beginning to worry, since the year and a half of conflict has already been exceeded and the friction not only with Poland, but also with Hungary and Slovakia threatens to jeopardize support for Kiev.. Slovakia is now precisely in the spotlight after the electoral victory of Robert Fico, a social democratic candidate but very close to pro-Russian positions and who does not want to continue supporting Ukraine.

The foreign ministers have agreed that the objective of the summit should be to “send another strong signal” to Putin, with a message of “unity” and denial of any wear and tear, even despite the latest controversies. “All my colleagues have come here with the desire to show and demonstrate the commitment of the European Union to continue supporting you in the face of Russia's war of aggression,” Borrell concluded.