Briefly

UNITED STATES

'No adversaries' behind Havana syndrome

US intelligence agencies cannot link a foreign adversary to any of the incidents associated with so-called Havana syndrome, the hundreds of cases of brain injuries and other symptoms reported by US citizens around the world. The findings released on Wednesday by US intelligence officials cast doubt on the long-standing suspicions by many people who reported cases that some countries may have been running a global campaign to harass or attack US citizens using some form of directed energy.

TURKIYE

Trapped dog rescued weeks after quake

Rescuers pulled a dog alive from a collapsed building in southern Turkiye three weeks after last month's deadly magnitude-7.8 earthquake, local media reported on Thursday. Teams from a local municipality in central Turkiye saved Aleks the dog on Wednesday and delivered him to Haytap, a Turkish animal protection association in the city of Antakya. A video from DHA news agency shows rescuers reaching between two large concrete slabs and calling to the trapped canine. Images then showed the rescuers embracing the dog, who appears to be alert and in good health, and offering him water.

ITALY

Police seize weapons haul from mobster

Italian police said on Thursday they had seized a large stash of weapons from the home of Raffaele Imperiale, a detained mafia boss who previously made headlines for possessing a couple of stolen Vincent van Gogh paintings. According to a statement by the Naples prosecutor's office, police found more than 80 weapons hidden under the garage floor of Imperiale's house, including three Kalashnikov rifles, a grenade, and 5,067 rounds of ammunition of various calibers. In 2016 police recovered two Van Gogh paintings, stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002, from one of Imperiale's properties near to Naples. Each was worth an estimated $58 million.

Agencies Via Xinhua