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world news Diabierna 7 OctOber 2022
France’s Macron against building new Iberia gas pipeline

PRAGUE (AP) — French built, Macron said, suggest-
President Emmanuel Ma- Macron said ahead of a ing that France does not want
cron said his government Thursday meeting of Euro- to be importing large quanti-
does not support the idea pean countries in Prague that ties of gas in the long term.
of building a new pipeline existing pipelines between
to pump natural gas be- Spain and France were only “I think our priority is rather
tween the Iberian Penin- being used at 50% to 60% of to get more electricity inter-
sula and the rest of Europe their capacity at the moment. connection in Europe, so I’m
despite the continent’s en- more in favor of these proj-
ergy crisis. “What does Europe need in ects,” he said.
the coming years? To pro-
During the war in Ukraine, duce more electricity on its Last month, Portugal’s prime
European Union countries soil and have a renewable and minister said European au-
have struggled to find com- nuclear (energy) strategy,” thorities were considering a
mon ground on how to wean the French leader said. liquefied natural gas pipeline
the bloc off its reliance on from Spain to Italy as a way
Russian gas. Spain is pushing pipeline to France, a plan that Scholz reiterated his support The new pipeline would of getting around France’s
to build another, larger gas German Chancellor Olaf for on Wednesday. need five to eight years to be opposition.

Greece: 22 dead, dozens missing, after 2 migrant ships sink

KYTHIRA, Greece (AP) were recovered after a din-
— Bodies floated amid ghy carrying about 40 people
splintered wreckage in sank. Ten women were res-
the wind-tossed waters off cued, while 12 other migrants
a Greek island Thursday were believed to be missing,
as the death toll from the coast guard officials said.
separate sinkings of two
migrant boats rose to 22, The last body to be recov-
with many still missing. ered, of a man, was found
by divers from the Europe-
The vessels went down hun- an Union’s Frontex border
dreds of miles apart, in one agency who helped in the
case prompting a dramatic search and rescue operation,
overnight rescue effort as is- the coast guard said.
land residents and firefight- ing 70 kilometers per hour Italy.
ers pulled shipwrecked mi- The second rescue effort (45 mph) overnight on Kythi-
grants to safety up steep cliffs. was launched several hun- ra, survivors clinging to ropes A volatile dispute is taking near the Turkish coastline.
dred kilometers (miles) to were pulled to safety up steep place between Greece and
The shipwrecks further the southwest, off the island cliffs as others were buffeted Turkey over the safety of Turkey denies the allegations
stoked tension between of Kythira, where a sailboat by waves as they waited their migrants at sea, with Athens and has publicly accused
neighbors Greece and Tur- struck rocks and sank. turn on tiny areas of rock at accusing its neighbor of fail- Greece of carrying out reck-
key, who are locked in a the bottom. ing to stop smugglers active less summary deportations,
heated dispute over maritime The bodies of at least four on its shoreline and even us- known as pushbacks.
boundaries and migration. migrants were seen amid “We could see the boat ing migrants to apply politi-
floating debris from the yacht smashing against the rocks cal pressure on the European Speaking at the United Na-
Greek Prime Minister Kyria- under the cliffs. The deaths and people climbing up those Union. tions General Assembly last
kos Mitsotakis voiced “deep would be officially recorded rocks to try and save them- month, Turkish President
sorrow for the tragic loss of when the bodies were recov- selves. It was an unbelievable Most migrants who reach Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ac-
life,” and praised rescuers’ ered, officials said. They add- sight.” Greece travel from nearby cused Greece of “turning the
“heroic” efforts. ed that 80 people, from Iran, Turkey, but smugglers have Aegean Sea into a graveyard”
Iraq and Afghanistan, had Kythira is some 400 kilo- changed routes — often tak- and held up photographs
The coast guard on Greece’s been rescued while a search meters (250 miles) west of ing greater risks — in recent of dead migrant children.
eastern island of Lesbos said continues for as many as 11 Turkey and on a route often months in an effort to avoid ___ Follow AP’s coverage of
the bodies of 16 young Afri- still believed to be missing. used by smugglers to bypass heavily patrolled waters global migration: https://ap-
can women, a man and a boy With winds in the area reach- Greece and head directly to around eastern Greek islands news.com/hub/migration

Pilots strike cancels flights at German carrier Eurowings

BERLIN (AP) — A pilots The pilots union Vereini-
strike at budget airline gung Cockpit announced the
Eurowings has forced the walkout after talks with man-
German carrier to can- agement about improving
cel hundreds of flights working conditions stalled.
Thursday.
Pilots are asking for the maxi-
The Lufthansa subsidiary mum number of flying hours
said about half of its 500 daily to be reduced.
flights would be nixed, af-
fecting tens of thousands of Strikes at parent company
passengers. German airports Lufthansa were called off last
are heavily affected, but also month after the airline and
others such as Stockholm, union reached a pay deal to
Prague and Mallorca. address the effects of infla-
tion.