World Briefs ARGENTINA MAY HAVE HEARD FROM LOST SUB
Argentina’s Navy detected seven brief satellite calls Saturday that officials believe may have come from a submarine with 44 crew members that hadn’t been heard from in three days.
The communication attempts “indicate that the crew is trying to re-establish contact, so we are working to locate the source of the emissions,” the Navy said on its Twitter account, adding that the calls lasted between four and 36 seconds.
Argentine authorities clarified that it has not been confirmed the calls came from the submarine, the ARA San Juan, though that is the working hypothesis.
Pledges of help came from Chile, Uruguay, Peru and Brazil, as well as Britain and the United States.
Egypt warns Ethiopia about Nile dam. Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-sissi, for the second time in as many days, delivered on Saturday a stern warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building after the two countries along with Sudan failed to approve a study on its potential effects.
Ethiopia is finalizing construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, its first major dam on the Blue Nile, and will eventually start filling the giant reservoir behind it to power Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.
Egypt fears that will cut into its water supply, destroying parts of its precious farmland and squeezing its population of 94 million people, who already face water shortages.
Greek flood toll rises to 19. GREECE» Greek
ATHENS, authorities say three more people have been found dead from a flash flood that hit a district west of Athens, raising the overall death toll to 19.
The fire department says the body of a man was found Saturday on the grounds of a factory near the suburb of Mandra, 16 miles northwest of the Greek capital.
The coast guard also announced Saturday that a patrol ship had found the bodies of two men in the sea south of Mandra.
Vatican investigates seminary sex charges.
CITY» The Holy See says a fresh investigation has been opened into allegations a future priest had sex with a fellow student when they were teenagers at its youth seminary in Vatican City.
The Vatican on Saturday said there were “signals” starting in 2013, some of them provided anonymously, about the case at St. Pius X Pre-seminary, which serves middle and high school students.
It said officials at the seminary and the bishop of Como investigated, but didn’t find “adequate” confirmation. entists said was “the glow of 100 full moons” and igniting hurried attempts to find the reported meteorite.
It produced a blast wave that felt like an explosion about 6:40 p.m. and could also be seen in northern Norway and in Russia’s Kola peninsula. It might have weighed about 220 pounds, according to Nikolai Kruglikov of Urals Federal University.
Exiled Caracas mayor in Spain. MADRID» The ousted mayor of Caracas pledged to spread his pro- test against Venezuela’s socialist government across the world as he arrived in Spain on Saturday, a day after escaping from house arrest and slipping past Venezuelan security forces into Colombia.
Antonio Ledezma’s flight from Bogota landed at Barajas airport in Spain’s capital, Madrid. With a Venezuelan flag draped over his shoulder, he hugged his wife and two daughters and said he would fight Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from exile.