An ammunition depot in the immediate vicinity of Nea Anchialos, in central Greece, was overtaken on Thursday by the flames of a huge fire, causing heavy explosions and forcing fresh evacuations in the area, Hellenic public broadcaster ERT reported.

Winds had rekindled Wednesday’s declared fire in the region of Magnesia, and the fire reached in the afternoon as far as a Greek Air Force ammunition depot, 6 kilometers north of Nea Anchialos, which housed bombs, missiles and fighter weapons F-16.

The expanding wave propagated hundreds of meters away and shattered the windows of numerous buildings.

Firefighters battling the flames were able to give the alert in time so depot and Army Air personnel at a nearby airport could be evacuated in time.

Local authorities ordered the curfew in a radius of 3 kilometers around the blast site, while urging residents of Nea Anchialos to approach the nearby beach to be evacuated by sea.

They also asked residents of other localities to abandon the area in the direction of the nearby port city of Volos. With seven seaplanes and three helicopters, firefighters battled this morning to control the fire.

In 2021, the Pentagon came out of the closet. The United States Administration changed its attitude towards UFOs, what they now call UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). He recognized that the 'X-files' exist. This is the only way to explain why he created an office on unidentified aerial phenomena.

That year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted to the House of Representatives a report outlining the progress made to date by the Task Force on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.. Then, in November of that year, a permanent office for the study of UAPs, UFOs, was created.. The office is called AOIMSG, the Aerial Objects Identification and Management Group.

“Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena”

The way was open. And so, this Wednesday, in the subcommittee on Homeland Security, Borders and Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives in charge of investigating these “unidentified anomalous phenomena” three retired soldiers testified: the former officer David Grusch and the former pilots of the Marina, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor.

In the hearing on “Unidentified anomalous phenomena: implications for national security, public safety and government transparency” all of them assured that the US authorities have detected a threat to national security over their airspace, regardless of its origin.

The most forceful and expressive was Grusch. This former Air Force Intelligence officer went so far as to affirm that the Government is in possession of both spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin and the biological remains of their occupants.. In addition, he assured that his country has a program to study the supposed extraterrestrial technology and try to reproduce it through so-called reverse engineering.

Who is David Grusch?

This soldier worked between 2019 and 2021 in the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Working Group, the group of the US Office of Naval Intelligence that investigates UFO sightings. He claims that during that time he interviewed several other intelligence officers who claimed to have seen alien technology firsthand.

“This is about recovering technical vehicles of non-human origin, call it spacecraft if you like, vehicles of exotic non-human origin that have landed or crashed,” Grusch told NewsNation in January.

“At first I thought they were fooling me, that it was a ruse […] But over time people began to approach and trust me. I have a lot of senior, former, intelligence officers who came to me, many of whom I've known for most of my career, who confided in me that they were part of a program,” he said in that interview.

What secrets did Grusch tell the congressmen?

At the congressional hearing, Grusch claimed that for years government agencies have withheld information about these mysterious objects.. He claimed that he personally interviewed people with direct knowledge of non-human craft.

“My testimony is based on information provided to me by people with long histories of legitimacy and service to this country, many of whom have also shared compelling evidence in the form of photographs, official documentation, and classified oral testimony,” he told lawmakers. .

alien ships

Grusch assured congressmen that the US government had “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles.. He also revealed details about a UAP crash reverse-engineering and recovery program, which he was denied access to despite his role in investigating classified programs.

non-human biological beings

According to the ex-official's account, the White House discovered non-human intelligent life in the 1930s.. He claimed that the Department of Defense had not only recovered alien spacecraft from crash sites, but also possessed non-human biological material.

The UFO that Mussolini hid

Grusch recounts that, during World War II, the American Army seized a UFO. The device crashed in northern Italy in 1933. According to his account, initially, the dictator Benito Mussolini hid it, but then, at the end of the war, the US forces seized it and sent it to the US.. He explained that the Italian investigators claim to have the documents to prove it.

Dark cubes in a transparent sphere

In Congress, along with Grusch, there were also the former pilots Graves and Fravor. Both shared their experiences on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena during their missions.. Graves described the encounter with dark gray or black cubes inside a transparent sphere.

A candy box shaped contraption

Fravor recounted his encounter with an “object” off the California coast in 2004. Upon arriving at the place, he and his weapons officer observed a patch of white water, despite the calm of the sea around them.. “We saw a small white object in the shape of a Tic Tac (candy box like dragees) with the longitudinal axis pointing north/south and moving very abruptly over the white water. There were no visible rotors or flight control surfaces, such as wings,” he said.

They followed the contraption briefly, closing to within half a mile, before it disappeared.. After a minute, a spy radar detected the object again 100 kilometers away. What is shocking, Fravor explained, is that the incident was never investigated, no one was questioned and nothing was ever recorded.

A national security problem

The former pilot Graves took the opportunity to request a change in the general attitude towards Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. In his opinion it is necessary to seriously address the implications for the security and protection of the country. These objects, he assured, could pose a potential national security problem if they are foreign drones.

Cover-ups and threats

Grusch accused the military of embezzling funds to hide these operations from congressional oversight.. He also stated that there have been people who have been threatened and even physically injured by the Pentagon's efforts to cover up the alleged UFO evidence.. Asked if he had heard of anyone killed in that cover-up, the former officer did not completely rule out that possibility.

And what does the Pentagon say?

US military officials on Thursday denied Grusch's accusations of a cover-up. In a statement, the Defense Department spokeswoman said investigators have discovered “no verifiable information to substantiate claims that programs involving the possession or reverse engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or currently exist.” The Pentagon statement did not refer to UFOs that are not suspected of being extraterrestrial objects.

There are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots.. But we don't have the answers about what they are.”

Asked about whether there may be life outside our planet, the spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby, said he did not have a specific position on the matter.. “What we believe is that there are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by Navy and Air Force pilots,” he said. But he acknowledged: “We don't have the answers about what these phenomena are.”

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has presided over a large military parade on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War (1950-53), which representatives of the Russian and Chinese governments witnessed with him in the rostrum .

Kim, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chinese Politburo member Li Hongzhong reviewed the troops before the parade began Thursday night in Pyongyang's central Kim Il-sung Square, according to the North Korean news agency KCNA and the state-run Rodong newspaper.

Shoigú and Li each sat down next to the North Korean marshal in the authorities' gallery located in front of the Great Hall of People's Studies to see the parade.

During the parade, the regime has shown its longest-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), the Hwasong-17 and the even more sophisticated Hwasong-18, which uses solid fuel and was tested for the second time on July 12 from the vicinity of Pyongyang. .

There has also been a public demonstration for the first time with new large drones that the North Korean military first secretly tested in June in the northwest of the country.

Pyongyang marks the anniversary of the signing of the ceasefire that ended the Korean War on July 27, 1953 as “Victory Day,” as the regime's narrative claims the United States and its allies were forced to plead for an armistice.

The North Korean authorities have taken advantage of the anniversary to stage their proximity to Moscow and Beijing, whose visit indicates that the strict border policy activated by Pyongyang to prevent the entry of covid-19 at the beginning of 2020 could be modified soon.

An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5 and originating at a depth of about 129 kilometers has shaken this Thursday a sector of the Amazonian province of Morona Santiago, in the southeast of Ecuador, without any casualties or material damage being reported so far.

The Geophysical Institute (IG) of the National Polytechnic School has reported that the tremor occurred at 8:38 p.m. local time (early morning in Spain) about 36 kilometers from the city of Macas, the capital of the province.

The epicenter of the telluric movement was located at 2.01 degrees south latitude and 78.27 degrees west longitude, with a hypocenter located 129 kilometers deep, the IG has specified on its web portal.

The earthquake, of which there are no reports indicating that it was felt by the population, has been located in an area close to the Sangay National Park, where the active volcano of the same name stands.

Ecuador is subjected to great seismic activity because it is located in the so-called subduction zone, an underwater region where the Nazca plate collides with the South American continental shelf near the coastal profile.

Likewise, the interior of the Ecuadorian territory is crossed by numerous systems of geological faults linked to the Andes mountain range, which also affects the seismic activity of the country.

China has accused the United States and NATO of being “the greatest source of risk and instability” for “international peace and security”, in response to the communiqué of the recent summit of the Atlantic Alliance held in Vilnius.

The spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense Tan Kefei made these statements on Thursday when receiving questions about the document issued by NATO, which mentions China as a “systemic challenge” and calls for greater cooperation with Asian partners, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

Tan has claimed that NATO is known for having the world's largest nuclear arsenal and for pursuing a first-use policy for nuclear weapons.

According to the spokesman, in recent years, the United States has “promoted nuclear weapons sharing” under the pretext of “alleged security threats.”

Tan has said that China firmly follows a nuclear self-defense strategy and is always committed to a policy of “no first use” of nuclear weapons.

“We urge NATO to take practical steps to lessen the role of nuclear weapons in national and collective security policies and effectively maintain global strategic stability,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesman has also criticized that NATO has “interfered in China's internal affairs” by “questioning its sovereignty and territorial integrity” and “defaming its peaceful development.”

“China poses no threat to any country, but we will not allow anyone to undermine our core interests,” Tan warned.

NATO leaders this month approved a declaration in which they assured that “China's declared ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, our security and our values.”

They added that “China's malicious hybrid and cyber operations and its confrontational rhetoric and disinformation target allies and harm Alliance security.”

The agency has urged Beijing to condemn Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine or to refrain from “supporting in any way the Russian war effort.”

Since the beginning of the year, 80 animals of different species have been born at the Paris zoo, some of them in danger of extinction such as the deer dog, the fossa or the Mhorr's gazelle, extinct in the wild since 1970 and which had never been seen before. pups born in the institution of the gala capital.

“This year more rare animals have been born,” said Alexis Lecu, deputy director of the Paris Zoological Park, who gives the case of the graves as an example.

“They are endangered animals in the natural environment and there is a conservation effort to increase their population in captivity. There are around 80 graves outside of Madagascar, where there are only between 2,000 and 2,500 specimens, and four babies are very important,” he explained.

This has been possible thanks to the transfer of a male specimen from Hungary to the Paris zoo, within the framework of a European conservation program for this species.

In the case of the Mhorr's gazelle, a subspecies of the dama gazelle, it is the first time that the Paris Zoo has had a birth of this species.. Specifically, it was on April 23. Since 1970 they have not existed in the natural environment and this species survives thanks to specimens bred in captivity in North Africa, Europe and the United States.

About the dama gazelles, there are only 175 left in the wild, spread between Chad and Niger, in Africa. That is why this species is critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

“The first to be happy are their keepers, because they see the animals every day and see that their work has results.. Also the zoological community, the coordinators who prepare the breeding plans for these species in Europe. And the visitors are also happy, because it is interesting to see this vital stage,” argued Lecu, who is also the head veterinarian of this zoo.

One of the objectives of the Paris Zoo is the reintroduction of captive-bred animals to their natural environment.. “There are species that do not need it, such as meerkats,” Lecu said.

In any case, it is not always easy: “It does not depend only on us, it also depends on the receiving countries, because sometimes the conditions in the natural environment are not good,” he said.

This establishment is characterized by its division into biozones, so that the fauna and vegetation similar and typical of a specific place coexist in harmony, throughout the 14 and a half hectares of space that it has.. “The gazelles are with the giraffes”, has exemplified the director of the zoo.

The Paris Zoo welcomes more than 700,000 visitors each year, according to the latest published data, and is the second most visited in France, only behind the Beauval Zoo, which is privately owned.

At least 23 people have died and six are missing after a boat capsized Thursday in a lake near the Philippine capital Manila amid strong winds, the Philippine coast guard said.

The boat capsized in a lake in Rizal province, some 37 kilometers southeast of Manila, on Thursday afternoon, as Super Typhoon Doksuri continues to leave a trail of severe weather across parts of Luzon Island, where the capital is located. filipina.

Doksuri, baptized in the Philippines as Egay, had left the Philippine area of responsibility hours before the event in Rizal, reports the local media ABS-CBN, after causing the death of at least five people due to its impact in northern Luzon.

The accident was caused by panic

This medium reports that strong winds hit the Princess Aya ship, causing passengers to panic and move to the side of the small ship, causing it to capsize.

“What happened was that (the passengers) panicked after a sudden gust of wind. So they ran to the left bank and the boat capsized,” Coast Guard spokesman Armando Balilo was quoted as saying by Phil Star.

The rescue teams continue the search tasks in the area of the accident, while it is not clear how many people have survived the accident, about 40, according to local media.

The super typhoon moved towards southern Taiwan on Thursday, after affecting more than 330,000 inhabitants in various regions of the northern Philippines, and will continue towards China.

Beijing decreed the red alert the day before, the highest of its four-color system, before the next arrival on its southern coasts of Doksuri, the fifth super typhoon that has formed so far this year in the Asian region.

Donald Trump continues with his legal battles. The special prosecutor Jack Smith has presented this Thursday new charges against the former president of the United States in the case in which he is accused of mishandling certain classified documents during his time in the White House.

Trump was charged with one additional count of “deliberate withholding of national defense information” and two additional counts of “obstruction” related to alleged attempts to remove surveillance video footage at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence. in the summer of 2022.

Special counsel Jack Smith has also singled out a third person, Carlos De Oliveira, in the case of handling classified documents found at Trump's residence at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

According to the court brief, Oliveira, 56, was the handyman who helped Waltine Nauta, Trump's personal assistant and also a defendant, move boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after the Department of US Justice. summoned the former president for the first time in the case of the classified documents last May.

For Trump this is “electoral interference”

Trump, who already accumulates 37 criminal charges, has come out this Thursday in response to these new charges against him and has indicated that they are “ridiculous” and “electoral interference at the highest level”, according to the Fox channel.

Trump and Nauta were indicted last month and both have pleaded not guilty to all charges against them.

The formal indictment also charges De Oliveira with the crime of making false statements and representations in a voluntary interview that he had with the FBI on January 13, 2023, as reported on CNN.

A Trump spokesperson dismissed the new charges, calling them “nothing more than a continued desperate and hectic attempt” by the Biden Administration to “harass President Trump and those around him” and influence the 2024 presidential race.

Some of those crimes are punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Judge Aileen Cannon has established that the trial of former President Donald Trump for the classified documents found in his Florida home begins on May 20, 2024, that is, when there will be just over six months left for the presidential elections in this country.

An ammunition depot near the town of Nea Anchialos, in central Greece, was hit on Thursday by the flames of a large fire, causing loud explosions and forcing new evacuations in the area, the Hellenic public broadcaster ERT reported.

The winds have revived the fire declared on Wednesday in the Magnesia region, and the fire has reached in the afternoon as far as an ammunition depot of the Greek Air Force, 6 kilometers north of Nea Anchialos, where there were bombs, missiles and weapons of F-16 fighters.

The shock wave has spread tens of meters away and broke the windows of numerous buildings.

The firefighters have been able to give the alert in time so that the personnel from the warehouse and the Air Force at a nearby airport could be evacuated in time.

The local authorities have ordered a curfew in a radius of 3 kilometers around the site of the explosion, while urging the residents of Nea Anchialos to approach the nearby beach to be evacuated by sea.

They have also asked the inhabitants of several other towns to leave the area in the direction of the nearby port city of Volos.

In the region, at least nine towns had already been evacuated this afternoon.

With seven seaplanes, planes and three helicopters, the firefighters continue to fight on Thursday night to control the fire.

Greece has been suffering for weeks from an extreme heat wave that, with record temperatures that exceeded 46 degrees Celsius, has led to almost 600 fires in recent days.

Although the thermometers have dropped somewhat today, the fight against the fire continues to be difficult due to the strong winds that fan the flames and the great drought that plagues the country.