Scientists are preparing for an urgent mission to the world’s biggest iceberg, which is on a collision course with the island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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The A-68A iceberg, which is larger than Luxembourg, broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica in 2017 and has been drifting towards the island ever since.
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It threatens to wreck the rich ecosystem around South Georgia by tearing up the sea floor, which is home to molluscs, crustaceans, sponges and other life, and by chilling the water and releasing meltwater into the sea.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled his Europe trip at the last minute on Tuesday after Luxembourg's foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him, European diplomats and other people familiar with the matter said.
Appalled by the violence, Luxembourg's Asselborn had called Trump a "criminal" and a "political pyromaniac" on RTL Radio the next day.
Ah yes, meet Jean Asselborn. An old school social democrat who's not exactly known for holding back.
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Luxembourg’s Asselborn criticised Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary, calling him a dictator. Asselborn said it represented an “attitude [that] suits a dictator who believes that the drive to maintain power is more important than any political moral decency”.
“Jean Asselborn is an idiot, but the Hungarians are not; the people of Hungary have no need for the Luxembourgian foreign minister’s crazy ideas to know what’s good for them.
“The Orban government is protecting Hungary’s security, but the Luxembourgian foreign minister would like to demolish the border security fence — together with George Soros and his comrades in principle in Hungary — and flood Hungary with migrants.”
They drew in the borders for Luxembourg though. But not Wales. And I think they moved Iceland a few hundred miles eastwards, but that could just be a weird map projection thing.
If you look at the orientation of Spain and North Africa I'd go with weird map projection. Columbert Modified Azimuthal Neoclassical, if I'm not wrong.
Mardi Gras parades got canceled by Covid-19. So people in New Orleans turned their houses into floats. Some 3,000 homes across New Orleans and its suburbs -- even some as far away as Luxembourg -- are dolled up for the inaugural Krewe of House Floats.https://t.co/iwCLYiFQzrpic.twitter.com/ThrsCflGsq