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Fashion Network
a day ago
- Business
- Fashion Network
Brückner launches Brückner Textile India as India subsidiary
German textile machinery manufacturer Brückner has established a new subsidiary in India, Brückner Textile India Pvt. Ltd., marking a strategic move to deepen its presence in one of the world's fastest growing textile markets. The launch reflects the company's long-term commitment to India and forms part of its broader global expansion strategy.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Search in Madeleine McCann case to resume in Portugal
Searches for Madeleine McCann are to resume in Portugal, 18 years after she disappeared from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz in the Algarve. Portuguese and German authorities are expected to continue to focus the search on disused buildings and wells. Madeleine was three when she vanished while on holiday with her parents on 3 May 2007, sparking a Europe-wide police investigation that has become one of the highest-profile missing persons cases. This search - which covers the municipality of Lagos, near Praia da Luz - will continue until Friday across a 21km sq site between where Madeleine went missing and where the German investigators' prime suspect had been staying at the time. Timeline: Madeleine McCann disappearance Madeleine's case was initially handled by the Portuguese authorities with the aid of the Metropolitan Police, but German investigators took the lead in 2020, when they identified German national Christian Brückner as their prime suspect. The 48-year-old is currently serving a sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal in 2005. He is due to be released in September, but that could be pushed back to early 2026 if he does not pay a fine he owes. The search site is located around 3.5 miles from the Ocean Club resort, where Madeleine and her family had been staying. Roads leading up to the area - which is large and mostly scrubland - have been closed since Monday, where the team had been clearing grass and vegetation. On Tuesday morning, a Portuguese fire engine and four vehicles carrying German police arrived. Firefighters also drained a well as part of the search. The last search took place two years ago and was focused around a reservoir to the north-east of where the British toddler was staying. Brückner, who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, was found to have photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir. German authorities suspect Brückner of murder and fear that if he is not charged with anything new he will disappear following his release. British police continue to treat the case as a missing persons investigation. Brückner has repeatedly denied any involvement. German police have a European warrant, which has been approved by Portuguese prosecutors, will allow them to conduct searches on private land. This week's search is expected to span across 21 different plots of land. Officials have not disclosed if they are conducting this latest search in Portugal based on any new information, making it appear as if they are taking one last look in places where evidence or a body could have been hidden Portuguese authorities have also named Brückner as a formal suspect, or "arguido". They said they will hand over any evidence seized in the latest search to German authorities. The Met Police, which said this week that it was aware of the searches being carried out by German police in Portugal, continues its investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. The case, known as Operation Grange, has been ongoing since 2011 and has cost around £13.3m to date. On the night Madeleine disappeared, her parents had been at dinner with friends at a restaurant a short distance away from the ground-floor apartment she and her younger twin siblings were asleep in. Her mother, Kate, discovered she was missing at around 22:00. A German documentary in 2022 found evidence that Brückner occasionally worked at the Ocean Club as a handyman, while German prosecutors have also linked his mobile phone data and a car sale to their case against him. Madeleine's parents marked the 18th year anniversary of her disappearance last month, saying their "determination to leave no stone unturned is unwavering". Madeleine McCann disappearance: A timeline
Euronews
3 days ago
- Euronews
Police launch new searches in Portugal in Madeleine McCann probe
Sicily's Mount Etna has erupted again with an intensity not seen since February 2021. The eruption has sent a cloud of ash, smoke and lapilli a few kilometres above Europe's largest active volcano. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) says the spectacle was caused when part of the southeast crater collapsed, resulting in hot lava flows. It was the 14th eruptive phase in recent months Volcanic material, according to preliminary observations, have not crossed the the Valley of the Lion, the end point for tourist trips on the approach to the summit. INGV also noted in a social media post that "explosive activity from the Southeast Crater has become a lava fountain." The volcanic tremor reached very high intensities during the eruptive peak, but according to experts, it has dropped again, signalling that the activity may be diminishing. The national institute said changes in the volcano's activity were first recorded at 00:39 CET on Monday. The designation later changed to a "Strombolian" eruption. Strombolian eruptian are usually characterised as discreet moderately explosive bursts which can eject pyroclasts hundreds of meters into the air. "I am following with the utmost attention, through the head of our Civil Protection, the evolution of the situation on Etna. The partial collapse of the southeast crater is a phenomenon that we are following with extreme caution," said Renato Schifani, President of Sicily. "At the moment, from the first surveys, the material would not have exceeded the rim of the Valley of the Lion and, as they assure me, there is no danger for the population," he added. The head of the regional civil protection, Salvo Cocina, has recommended the utmost precaution to hikers in the vicinity of Mount Etna and urged them to avoid the volcano's summit area until further official notice, as risks of further eruptions and activity loom. Catania airport, despite the Volcano Observatory Notice for Aviation's (VONA) warnings, has remained operational. Portuguese and German police are carrying out fresh searches for British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal's Algarve region, where she went missing 18 years ago. The three-year-old disappeared from her bed while on holiday with her family in the Praia da Luz resort, in southern Portugal, on 3 May, 2007. She has not been seen since. Detectives acting on a request from a German public prosecutor will carry out "a broad range" of searches this week in the Lagos area, a Portuguese police statement said. German investigators have taken the lead in the case since identifying 48-year-old Christian Brückner as their prime suspect in 2020. Brückner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005. He is under investigation on suspicion of murder in the McCann case but has not been charged. He spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz, around the time of the child's disappearance. Brückner has denied any involvement in her disappearance. Prosecutors in Braunschweig, Germany, who are responsible for the investigation, didn't give details of the "judicial measures" taking place in Portugal. They said the measures are being carried out by Portuguese authorities with support from officers from Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. London's Metropolitan Police said it was "aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann". "The Metropolitan Police Service is not present at the search, we will support our international colleagues where necessary," the force added, without giving more details. According to a report by CNN Portugal, searches could begin on Tuesday and will focus on an area between Praia da Luz and one of the houses where Brückner lived at the time of McCann's disappearance. The McCann case received worldwide interest for several years, with reports of sightings of her stretching as far away as Australia as well as books and television documentaries about her disappearance. Nearly two decades later, investigators in the UK, Portugal and Germany are still piecing together what happened on the night she disappeared. She was in the same room as her brother and sister — 2-year-old twins — while their parents, Kate and Gerry, had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant. The last time police resumed searches in the case was in 2023, when detectives from the three countries took part in an operation searching near a dam and a reservoir about 50 kilometres from the Praia da Luz resort. The victory of conservative Karol Nawrocki's victory in Poland's weekend presidential runoff is likely to cause further division and political instability between the centrist government and the new president, according to analysts and citizens alike. Nawrocki, who was backed by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party at home and endorsed by US President Donald Trump, won 50.89% of votes in Sunday's race against Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%, according to election commission data published on Monday. The 42-year-old nationalist has pledged to hinder Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist, pro-EU government until its term ends in late 2027, just as the outgoing President, Andrzej Duda, has done during his presidency. Nawrocki is set to take office on 6 August. Tusk announced on Monday that he will call for a parliamentary vote of confidence in his coalition government. While his government exists separately from the presidency, the president holds power to veto laws, and Nawrocki's victory will make it extremely difficult for Tusk to press his pro-European agenda and push through key promises including a civil union law for same-sex couples and a less restrictive abortion law. Nawrocki opposes such measures. Euronews spoke to several residents of Warsaw about whether relations between Tusk's government and the new president-elect would improve compared to the current reality. "There is no agreement between the government and the president. There are two different worlds," one resident of Warsaw told Euronews. Another person said: "They are on opposite sides and don't agree. But Nawrocki is a big unknown." However, another individual said: "I hope, however, that wisdom will win out and somehow these relations will settle down. And this nation will not be as divided as it is at the moment." Election data results show that he difference between Nawrocki and Trzaskowski was fewer than 370,000 votes, or 1.78 percentage points — the smallest gap in a presidential run-off since 1989. "Poland remains a deeply divided country," said Jacek Kucharczyk, the president of the Polish Institute of Public Affairs. "Although the electoral turnout was highest ever in history of presidential elections, Nawrocki's margin of victory is very small, which means that half of Poland will be cheering his presidency, whereas half of Poland, the other half, remains deeply worried or even disturbed," he added. Nawrocki, a conservative historian and amateur boxer with no prior political experience, had presented the election as a referendum on Tusk's 18-month-old government. In his first public comments since his victory was announced, Nawrocki thanked those who voted for him and said he would work for the causes that are important to them "We want to live in a safe country with a strong economy, one that cares for the most vulnerable. A country that matters in international, European, and transatlantic relations. A country that cherishes its centuries-old traditions and respects its history," he wrote on social media. Trzaskowski conceded defeat and congratulated Nawrocki. "I fought for us to build a strong, safe, honest, and empathetic Poland together," he wrote on social media. Speaking on Monday, President Duda said he hoped the election result would be "an unambiguous signal" to Tusk and the government that the majority of Poles expect to see the "kind of policy ... that Nawrocki proposes and preached during his campaign". Following the election result, Nawrocki has received congraulations from leaders including Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
New Madeleine McCann search under way
Portuguese and German authorities have started a new search into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal nearly two decades ago. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from an apartment complex in the town Praia da Luz in Algarve during a family holiday on 3 May 2007. Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world. On Monday, Portuguese police confirmed they were carrying out the search on warrants issued by German prosecutors. Portuguese police say the search - which covers the municipality of Lagos near Praia da Luz - is due to continue until Friday. Four vehicles carrying German police have arrived on the search site, the roads to which have been closed off. German investigators have taken the lead in the case since they identified Christian Brückner as their prime suspect in 2020. The 48-year-old is currently serving a sentence in Germany for a separate crime - the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal in 2005. He is due to be released later this year. German authorities suspect him of murder but have not found enough evidence to bring charges, while Brückner repeatedly denies any involvement. Portuguese authorities have also named Brückner as a formal suspect, or "arguido". They said they would hand over any evidence seized in the latest search to German authorities. The team of German and Portuguese investigators have been given permission to search 21 plots of land between the Ocean Club resort Madeleine disappeared from and where Brückner had been staying at the time. German authorities told the BBC on Monday that "criminal proceedings are currently under way in Portugal" with the support of Portuguese police. The previous search was two years ago, focussed around a reservoir where Madeleine was last seen. Brückner, who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, was found to have photographs and videos of himself near the reservoir. The night Madeleine disappeared, her parents had been at dinner with friends at a restaurant a short walk away while Madeleine and her younger twin siblings were asleep in the ground-floor apartment. Her mother, Kate, discovered her was missing at around 22:00. A German documentary in 2022 found evidence that Brückner occasionally worked at the Ocean Club as a handyman, while German prosecutors have also linked his mobile phone data and a car sale to their case against him. Madeleine's parents last month marked the 18th year anniversary of her disappearance, saying their "determination to leave no stone unturned is unwavering". The Metropolitan Police - which this week said it was "aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal" - continues its investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. The case, known as Operation Grange, has been going since 2011.
Saudi Gazette
3 days ago
- Saudi Gazette
New search in Portugal in Madeleine McCann case
LISBON — Portuguese and German police have launched a new search in Portugal this week as part of ongoing investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The search will cover the municipality of Lagos, which sits next to Praia da Luz, the town in the Algarve where she went missing nearly two decades ago. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from an apartment complex on 3 May 2007 while on holiday with her family. Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world. Portuguese police confirmed on Monday that they were carrying out the search between 2-6 June on warrants issued by German prosecutors. German investigators have taken the lead in the case since identifying 48-year-old Christian Brückner — who is currently in prison in Germany for a separate crime — as their prime suspect in authorities suspect him of murder but have not found enough evidence to bring charges. Brückner has repeatedly denied any is currently serving a sentence in Germany for raping a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal in authorities told the BBC on Monday that "criminal proceedings are currently underway in Portugal", and that this was being done with the support of Portugese authorities have also named Brückner as a formal suspect, or "arguido". They said they would hand over any evidence seized in the latest search to German the Met Police said: "We are aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann."The search will be the first to take place in two years. The previous search in 2023 focused on a remote dam, a 40-minute drive from where Madeleine was last who spent time in the area between 2000 and 2017, was found to have photographs and videos of himself near the media reported on Monday that the new search would focus on the area between the Ocean Club holiday resort where the McCann family were staying and the house where Brückner used to live.A map showing the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz and two properties linked to the suspect in the German investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine night Madeleine disappeared, her parents had been at dinner with friends at a restaurant a short walk away while Madeleine and her younger twin siblings were asleep in the ground-floor parents checked in on the children throughout the evening until her mother, Kate, discovered Madeleine was missing at around 22: authorities continue to treat Brückner as their main suspect. However, prosecutors in Germany said earlier this year that there was "no prospect" of a charge against him relating to Madeleine's disappearance.A German documentary in 2022 found evidence that Brückner occasionally worked at the Ocean Club as a handyman, while German prosecutors have also linked his mobile phone data and a car sale to their case against parents last month marked the 18th year anniversary of her disappearance, saying their "determination to leave no stone unturned is unwavering".The Metropolitan Police continues its investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, known as Operation Grange, which has been going since 2011. — BBC
