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Monday 25 noveMber 2019
3 dead, highway collapses as floods pound France, Italy

By FRANCES D'EMILIO thon. In France, the Nice
ANGELA CHARLTON airport was briefly closed
Associated Press Saturday. Rivers lead-
ROME (AP) — Flooding ing from the Alps to the
pounded France and Italy French Riviera broke their
amid heavy rains over the banks, and sirens rang out
weekend, leaving at least in resort towns. Images on
three dead and a stretch French media showed cars
of elevated highway col- peeking above inundated
lapsed by a landslide, of- streets and waves slam-
ficials said Sunday. The ming onto roadsides.
weather has trapped trav- A rescue boat sank while
elers, downed trees and bringing three people to
unleashing mudslides in shore near the French town
parts of both countries. of Muy, and one of them
A 30-meter (100-foot) sec- died, the Var regional ad-
tion of highway along a ministration said. Another
viaduct near the flooded person was found dead in
Italian coastal city of Savo- a car in the town of Ca-
na collapsed, leaving cars basse.
perched perilously on a French authorities are
precipice. searching for two people
In an aerial video taken missing in the floods, Nice
by firefighters, cars and Firefighters work in the area where a stretch of the Turin to Savona A6 highway collapsed following Mayor Christian Estrosi said
one truck could be seen heavy rains. Sunday.
stopped perilously close to Associated Press Rain-swollen rivers and
the point where the raised flooded streets plagued
part of the A6 highway said a landslide caused pillars at that point. ple, when trucks and cars Italy, where it has been
plunged onto a wooded the collapse in a muddy, The roadway gave way plunged into a dry riverbed raining, sometimes heav-
area of the Liguria region. hilly area. Firefighters were about 1.5 kilometers (a below. ily, in much of the country
A man from one of the cars using dogs to sniff out any mile) outside of Savona on Elsewhere in northern Italy, nearly every day for about
closest to the precipice possible victims in two-me- the highway that links that a woman was found dead two weeks. In Turin, the
stood outside his vehicle, ter (6.5 feet) high debris Riviera city to Turin. after the surging Bomida Po River overran its banks
holding up his arms toward of mud, Toti said. It wasn't The collapse was eerily rem- river swept away her car. and flooded the medieval
other traffic to make sure known if any vehicles might iniscent of the 2018 bridge Flooding in Turin, a city in quarter and a popular riv-
drivers stopped. have plunged off the high- tragedy in Genoa during a northwest Italy, prompted erside strolling area known
Liguria Gov. Giovanni Toti way which is supported by rainstorm that killed 43 peo- cancellation of a mara- as the Murazzi.q

Boris Johnson unveils election platform,

promises Brexit

By GREGORY KATZ my Corbyn. He didn't offer has agreed to back the
Associated Press details about the plans laid deal. His repeated promise
LONDON (AP) — British out in the party platform. to "get Brexit done" will be
Prime Minister Boris John- The manifesto featured a much more difficult if he
son is using the launch of commitment to bring John- doesn't win an outright ma-
his Conservative Party plat- son's Brexit deal back to jority as other parties plan
form to claim that his is the Parliament before Christ- to slow Brexit down — or
only party in next month's mas, with passage likely as- halt it altogether.
election that will complete sured if the Conservatives Before the official launch,
the Brexit process. win a majority in the Dec. Johnson's Conservative
"Unlike any other party 12 vote. Party pledged fiscal open-
standing in this election, Johnson vowed to respect ness with the unveiling of its
we are going to get Brexit the results of the 2016 refer- campaign pledges.
done," he told supporters endum, which saw Britain Treasury chief Sajid Javid
while waving his party's vote 52% to 48% in favor told Sky News the Conser-
printed platform, which of leaving the European vative manifesto would
was unveiled Sunday. Union bloc. be the "most transparent"
Johnson said the rival par- That vote was followed by explanation of spending
ties — the Liberal Demo- difficult negotiations with plans in British history.
crats, the Labour Party and the EU that eventually led Johnson revealed the par-
others — would only bring to a divorce deal — but ty's campaign plans at an
more delay and eventually one that was rejected in event in the West Midlands,
betray the will of voters as Parliament and then rene- where the Conservatives
expressed in the 2016 Brexit gotiated by Johnson. hope to make inroads with
referendum. The prime minister says that traditional Labour Party
Johnson spent much of the will change if his party wins voters unhappy with the
time ridiculing opposition a majority, because each opposition party's Brexit
Labour Party leader Jere- of the party's candidates stance.q