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Oil tanker Safer, Osamah Abdulrahman/AP  

 

UN moves oil to avoid environmental disaster  

 

The UN is currently moving over 1.1 million barrels of oil from an abandoned rusty old tanker off the coast of Yemen, Ekot reports. 

 

The tanker has been moored off the coast of the war-torn country for seven years without maintenance. It is believed that the move is to avoid a feared oil disaster.  

 

- We have reached a critical stage in this rescue operation, Achim Steiner, administrator of the UN development program who is working with the effort, told AP.  

 

The oil transfer is expected to take around three weeks and cost around one and a half billion to complete.  

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2019. Sergei Ilnitsky / AP  

 

The North Korea crisis Russian defense minister attends 

 

North Korean celebration Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is to visit North Korea next week, according to North Korean state media, reports AFP. 

 

Shoigu is to attend the country's celebration of the armistice after the Korean War. A Chinese delegation will also participate in the event.

 

People sit in the shade along the river Seine in Paris. Michel Euler / AP 

 

After 100 years – Parisians will soon be able to swim in the Seine  

 

In Paris, people will soon be able to swim in the river Seine - after a 100-year ban, writes the BBC. Just in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Paris, they have managed to remove the pollution enough that it will be possible to hold swimming competitions in the river.  

 

For the past 20 years, the city has worked actively to remove the pollution. Among other things, by rebuilding the old sewage system so that sewage now does not go into the river directly, except in heavy downpours. 

 

By 2025, the plan is for Parisians to have at least three outdoor pools in the Seine to swim in.   

 

People bathe on the island of Reugen in Germany in the Baltic Sea. Stefan Sauer / AP 

 

Wastewater treatment plant breaks down - leaks sewage into the Baltic Sea  

 

Wastewater is leaking into the Baltic Sea after one of Latvia's treatment plants in the city of Liepaja has broken, writes AFP. The country's health authority has therefore closed all beaches between Lithuania in the south to the town of Pavilosta, 40 kilometers north of Liepaja.  

 

The Latvian environmental authority has started an investigation into how the accident could have happened. The treatment plant was built as recently as 2009. 

 

- There should be no danger to the public, according to mayor Gunars Ansins. 

 

 

The hotel in Sapporo where the body was found. AP  

 

Japanese family arrested after beheading in hotel  

 

A daughter and her parents have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a beheaded man was found in a hotel in the Japanese city of Sapporo, NHK News reports.  

 

It was on the fourth of July that a naked body without a head belonging to a 62-year-old man was found in a so-called "love hotel" in the popular tourist town in northern Japan.  

 

The daughter and father were arrested after a house search where the man's head was found in their home. The mother is also said to have been arrested for involvement in the murder. According to the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, the 29-year-old daughter is said to be mentally ill.  

 

Witnesses reportedly saw the victim check into the hotel with a woman in a large hat. Three hours later, a person left the hotel room carrying a large suitcase.