Fallen Tree Disrupts High Speed Trains in Eastern France

File: A view shows trees, which burned during last summer's wildfires, cut down and piled - Reuters

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13:37-31 July 2024 AD ـ 25 Muharram 1446 AH

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13:37-31 July 2024 AD ـ 25 Muharram 1446 AH

Fallen Tree Disrupts High Speed Trains in Eastern France

File: A view shows trees, which burned during last summer's wildfires, cut down and piled - Reuters

Traffic on high-speed trains had to be halted on two lines from Paris to eastern France on Wednesday after a train hit a tree fallen on tracks during a thunderstorm, French SNCF railways operator said on X, Reuters reported.

Traffic was due to be disrupted until at least 1200 GMT between Paris and Lyon and Paris and Dijon after being halted around 0530 GMT, SNCF said.

The incident, which was expected to impact some 80,000 travellers, comes after vandals sabotaged signal stations and cables at key points in the high-speed train network on July 26, causing travel chaos hours before the Paris Olympic games.

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North-South Korea Olympic Podium Selfie Goes Viral

Paris 2024 Olympics - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles Victory Ceremony - South Paris Arena 4, Paris, France - July 30, 2024. Bronze medalist Jong-hoon Lim of South Korea takes selfie with Yu-bin Shin of South Korea and gold medalists Chuqin Wang of China and Yingsha Sun of China with silver medalists Jong Sik Ri of North Korea and Kum Yong Kim of North Korea on the podium with their medals after winning. (Reuters)

10:03-31 July 2024 AD ـ 25 Muharram 1446 AH

North-South Korea Olympic Podium Selfie Goes Viral

Images of Olympic table tennis players from North Korea and South Korea taking a selfie together on the medal podium in Paris went viral in South Korea Wednesday, hailed as a rare show of cross-border unity.

Nuclear-armed North Korea declared the South its principal enemy earlier this year and tensions between the two countries are at one of their highest points in years.

But after South Korea won bronze and North Korea silver in the mixed doubles behind China, South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon took a group photo after the medal ceremony.

North Korea's Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, the South's Shin Yu-bin and the victorious Chinese team Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha all beamed into Lim's phone, a South Korean-made Samsung.

"A selfie with both Koreas' national flags and a Samsung phone," said the widely read daily JongAng Ilbo.

It was the first time North Korea had been on an Olympic podium since 2016, as they did not send athletes to the Tokyo Olympics because of the Covid pandemic.

"I congratulated them when they were introduced as Silver medalists," Lim told Korean media after the award ceremony.

South Korean broadcasters have repeatedly run videos of the selfie, with many commentators reflecting on the significance of a rare moment of unity.

"This is the true spirit of the Olympics," one commentator said.

Fallen Tree Disrupts High Speed Trains in Eastern France

Fallen Tree Disrupts High Speed Trains in Eastern France

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