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Tear gas bombs burst and people gather in the streets of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, where a raid is underway. On Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said 14 people were killed in an Israeli operation in the city of Jenin -- the highest West Bank death toll from a single raid since at least 2005, according to United Nations records. IMAGES
History literally repeated itself recently, as Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 1701 re-enacted its astonishing run in the 1911 London-Edinburgh Trial.The car, designed as an 'Experimental Speed Car', won the original event locked in top gear for the entire 799-mile return trip between the two capitals. Given the primitive state of Britain's Edwardian roads, its average speed of 19.59 mph was highly impressive – and its then unheard‑of fuel efficiency of over 24 mpg even more so. To prove that the car had not been modified in any way, it achieved 78.2 mph on a half-mile speed test conducted immediately after the Trial; it also became the first Rolls-Royce to exceed 100 mph in a later test at the fabled Brooklands circuit in Surrey.The re-enactment was as faithful to the 1911 event as possible. The car, now a priceless collector's item and wearing registration R-1075, departed from the Pall Mall headquarters of the Royal Automobile Club (which oversaw the original Trial) at 06.00 on Sunday 5 September 2021, then travelled to Edinburgh on a route that followed the old Great North Road as closely as practicable – locked in top gear just as it was 110 years before.
Extinction Rebellion block roads outside Bank of England in London. They pledged to stay sitting in the road outside the building until the governor of the bank and the British prime minister declare an end to all new fossil fuel funding in line with Extinction Rebellion’s demands, according to a press release from the movement. IMAGES
Nablus, Apr 9 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Alaa Badarneh) Palestinians walk past closed shops in an empty street amid the coronavirus lockdown in the West Bank city of Nablus for Friday and Saturday. FOOTAGE OF NABLUS.
London (United Kingdom), Jan 26 (EFE) .- (Camera: Clàudia Sacrest) The United Kingdom maintains containment measures, with the closure of non-essential schools and stores, to curb the spread of coronavirus.FOOTAGE OF A SCHOOL IN LONDON.
London (United Kingdom), Oct 15 (EFE/EPA) - (Camera: Andy Rain).- Authorities in London will raise its public health alert to its second highest level from midnight on Friday as the city struggles to contain a resurgence of Covid-19 infections. New measures include bans on indoor meetings of people from different households, mayor Sadiq Khan said. Khan said the measures — which he said should be implemented nationwide — were needed to save thousands of lives and protect the city’s economy, already “reeling” from the lockdown in the spring.FOOTAGE OF THE CITY OF LONDON WITH SIGNPOSTS ON SAFETY MEASURES TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS.