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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
File: A view shows trees, which burned during last summer's wildfires, cut down and piled - Reuters
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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
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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Türkiye Passes Law to Get Stray Dogs off the Streets and Into Shelters 

Garip, a stray dog, who has been taken care by the shopkeepers at a local market, is pictured in Istanbul, Türkiye, July 23, 2024. (Reuters)
Garip, a stray dog, who has been taken care by the shopkeepers at a local market, is pictured in Istanbul, Türkiye, July 23, 2024. (Reuters)
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Türkiye Passes Law to Get Stray Dogs off the Streets and Into Shelters 

Garip, a stray dog, who has been taken care by the shopkeepers at a local market, is pictured in Istanbul, Türkiye, July 23, 2024. (Reuters)
Garip, a stray dog, who has been taken care by the shopkeepers at a local market, is pictured in Istanbul, Türkiye, July 23, 2024. (Reuters)

Türkiye’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that aims to round up millions of stray dogs and put them into shelters, a plan that has alarmed animal lovers who say a mass neutering campaign would be a better solution.

Under the legislation, proposed by the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK party, municipalities would have to get the strays off the streets and into shelters. Any dogs showing aggressive behavior or that have untreatable diseases will be put down.

Under previous legislation, municipalities have to neuter and vaccinate all street dogs and leave them where they were found following treatment.

The population of street dogs in Türkiye is estimated to be 4 million, and municipalities have neutered around 2.5 million in the past 20 years, according to the draft bill. The animals are often taken care of by neighborhood residents and treated like pets.

There are currently 322 animal shelters with a capacity for 105,000 dogs, according to the bill.

The law also requires all municipalities to spend at least 0.3% of their annual budget on animal rehabilitation services and building shelters.

Municipalities will be given time until 2028 to build new shelters and improve current shelters, the law says.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets over the past few weeks to protest against the law, occasionally scuffling with police.